Emmy Awards 2019 Food Facts by the Numbers: 7,000 Pots de Creme, 1,500 Bottles of Wine and More

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Emmy Awards 2019 Food Facts by the Numbers: 7,000 Pots de Creme, 1,500 Bottles of Wine and More

There’s a ton of preparation that goes into planning the 2019 Emmy Awards and the official afterparty, a.k.a. the Governors Ball, especially as far as food is concerned. Though guests won’t be eating during the actual awards ceremony, which is slated to take place on Sunday, September 22, they will be feasting once they hit the post-show shindig later that night. And when you’re catering to a star-studded crowd that’s likely to include nominees such as Kit Harington and Mandy Moore, the stakes are pretty darn high. [ami-related id="1562836" url="https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/pictures/emmy-nominations-2019-celeb-nominees-react/" title="Stars React to 2019 Emmy Nomminations" target="" showsubt="false" thumb="false" imgsrc="https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Celebs-React-to-Their-Emmy-Nominations-2019-landing.jpg"] Per the Television Academy, “Brilliance in Motion” is the theme of the official Emmy Awards after-party celebrations and, for the second year in a row, the Governors Ball festivities will be held at the elevated, open-air L.A. LIVE Event Deck in Los Angeles. Sequoia Productions is producing the event, as it has for the past 22 years. Once at the soiree, guests will savor an eclectic menu of fine-dining, small plates created by renowned chef Joachim Splichal and Patina Catering. Dishes will include red-wine braised short rib and “street corn" ravioli. Additionally, partygoers will sample specialty wines from Sterling Vineyards and sip on cocktails crafted by award-winning bartender Charles Joly. [jwplayer ZJNBMein-l3ahXupL] At the 71st Emmy Awards Governors Ball & 2019 Creative Arts Governors Ball Events Press Preview on Thursday, September 12, at the L.A. LIVE Event Deck, Us Weekly learned that an estimated 10,000 glasses of wine will be passed around by a staff that includes some 300 chefs and executive chefs, as well as 50 bartenders and 600 servers. The 71st Emmy Awards will air live coast-to-coast from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, September 22, on FOX. Scroll down for more Governors Ball food facts!

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Emmy Awards 2019 Food Facts by the Numbers: 7,000 Pots de Creme, 1,500 Bottles of Wine and More

There’s a ton of preparation that goes into planning the 2019 Emmy Awards and the official afterparty, a.k.a. the Governors Ball, especially as far as food is concerned. Though guests won’t be eating during the actual awards ceremony, which is slated to take place on Sunday, September 22, they will be feasting once they hit the post-show shindig later that night. And when you’re catering to a star-studded crowd that’s likely to include nominees such as Kit Harington and Mandy Moore, the stakes are pretty darn high. [ami-related id="1562836" url="https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/pictures/emmy-nominations-2019-celeb-nominees-react/" title="Stars React to 2019 Emmy Nomminations" target="" showsubt="false" thumb="false" imgsrc="https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Celebs-React-to-Their-Emmy-Nominations-2019-landing.jpg"] Per the Television Academy, “Brilliance in Motion” is the theme of the official Emmy Awards after-party celebrations and, for the second year in a row, the Governors Ball festivities will be held at the elevated, open-air L.A. LIVE Event Deck in Los Angeles. Sequoia Productions is producing the event, as it has for the past 22 years. Once at the soiree, guests will savor an eclectic menu of fine-dining, small plates created by renowned chef Joachim Splichal and Patina Catering. Dishes will include red-wine braised short rib and “street corn" ravioli. Additionally, partygoers will sample specialty wines from Sterling Vineyards and sip on cocktails crafted by award-winning bartender Charles Joly. [jwplayer ZJNBMein-l3ahXupL] At the 71st Emmy Awards Governors Ball & 2019 Creative Arts Governors Ball Events Press Preview on Thursday, September 12, at the L.A. LIVE Event Deck, Us Weekly learned that an estimated 10,000 glasses of wine will be passed around by a staff that includes some 300 chefs and executive chefs, as well as 50 bartenders and 600 servers. The 71st Emmy Awards will air live coast-to-coast from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, September 22, on FOX. Scroll down for more Governors Ball food facts!

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The Chefs

This year marks the 24th year Patina Catering will serve cuisine for the Emmys Governors Ball. To make sure everything goes off without a hitch, the
service will feature 20 executive chefs on-site in the kitchen, 250 chefs and 15 production managers.

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The Staff

Food and drink at the Governors Ball will be served with help from 50 bartenders as well as a 600-person waitstaff.

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The Appliances

To cook the food, which is slated to include Maine lobster and burrata, Beyond Meat sliders topped with caramelized onions, mini milkshakes and more, the kitchen staff will use nine convection ovens, six stoves and 15 fryers.

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The Wine

For the fourth consecutive year, iconic Napa Valley winery, Sterling Vineyards, will be the official wine of Emmy Awards and the Governors Ball. Lauren Kopit, a winemaker with Sterling Vineyards, estimates about 10,000 glasses of vino will be served on Emmy night. “That's 1,500 bottles of wine,” she tells Us.

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The Wine Buckets

With that much wine flowing, there needs to be a place to put some of it. That’s where the estimated 100 wine buckets that will be on hand come in.

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The Cocktails

Charles Joly, an award-winning bartender, will be serving up cocktails at the Governors Ball. He estimates 7,000 total libations will be made on Emmy night and tells Us “well north of a thousand bottles of Ketel One” vodka will be consumed, in addition to approximately two pounds of spices.

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The Dessert

Lindt, the chocolatier, partnered with Patina Catering’s executive pastry chef, Frania Mendivil, to create an array of decadent desserts. Among them will be an estimated 7,000 chocolate pots de creme, which will be crafted using a thousand bars of chocolate and brushed with edible gold dust, according to Anna Czaja, one of Lindt’s master chocolatiers.

Should some stars want an alternate dessert, Czaja tells Us the brand will also have an estimated 10,000 truffles on hand “just in case they run out or somebody needs something different.”

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The Coffee

Since the Governors Ball usually stretches into the wee hours of the morning, caffeine is a must. Lisette Gaviña Lopez, executive marketing director for Don Francisco’s Coffee, tells Us she is predicting 5,000 to 8,000 cups of java will be poured over the course of the Emmy celebrations. “We're providing coffee not only for those that are attending the event, but also everybody that puts it all together and tears it down afterwards,” she explained. “It takes a lot of coffee to make it an Emmys Awards happen.”

With reporting by Kayley Stumpe